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  1. comanche
    Anagram fish . Carp fishing is coarse fishing . Though my mate and I refer to it lightheartedly as "anagram" fishing The last few years for some reason carp have been artificially elevated in some circles above our native fish in status . A lot of modern carp fishing at first examination appears to be based around crude ,self-hooking ledgering techniques which compares unfavourably with the fine end tackle and lightening reaction often required to hook a January roach from an icy river . That's an unfair comparison because every species requires it's own approa
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    The thing that i find interesting is that there really is very little that is new in todays angling except the modern materials . Method feeders ,poles with elastic,protein baits are nothing new . Perhaps the only real (sorry ) innovation has been in the developement of reels . Today's boot sale yielded one bamboo and two split- cane rods and a salmon tailer . I shall keep one of the split-cane rods . It seems virtually unused but as I think it is only a budget 60's imported jobby I 've no qualms about putting an end to that state of affairs . The bamboo rod is pr
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    EEk and i used for mackeral yesterday and lost it on a rock !!!.......... Only joking .I thought it might be interesting rather than valuable . There was another like it but not on it's card . Seems to have been a good month for coming across interesting bits . Bought something at a boot-sale called a "Matchomatic"-an old metal centre-pin reel - because it looked a bit more usable than my old wooden one that is great for pike but a bit insensitive when after the tiddlers I usually catch. So come the new season i shall be trying it out on the local mill-stream. Them gudgeon better loo
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    Could have gone in the fishing section but this fish has to be amongst the most exotic looking of our wildlife.
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    Come on .What's all this cr*p about china horses . Poor old Magwich even started doubting himself thanks to the non believers taking the mickty out of his rare and wonderfull picture ... It's a bleedin unicorn ,anyone can see that . On a similar note ; at risk of being the butt of some predictable p*ss-taking I'm going to share these pictures with you . These chaps came out of the bushes during a ferreting trip back in April. At first they gave me a hard -time about late-season rabbiting and how I was on "their patch" but then they actually put me onto
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    Bought a tin of old tackle from a boot sale . Basically I wanted the half a dozen or so light sea weights and was more than happy to hand over my two pounds and did'nt really look at what else was in there. Well have a look at what I came across at the bottom of the box ... The Allcock lure -still on it's card- is my favourite (after the six inch Whitby sheath knife that is'nt shown .) - and the old feeder -ledger is neat but I suppose the Milbro Lesney bread press( from the makers of Matchbox cars) is the most interesting as I think they were only made for a short time and did'nt
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    If someone contacts me as a customer and asks me to control their rabbits It has to be initially aproached on a proffessional basis . Once the situation has been accessed things can change . If a landowner offered the run of his farm with dog ,nets and ferrets I'd count myself lucky and certainly not mention payment. I would still approach the task as a proper job though. No creaming -off of easy burrows and skipping the nasty ones . The farmer has let me onto his land in order to keep his rabbits down not as a favour. If I don't do a good job of it he's -quite rightly- likely to invi
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    farm i go over has one of these its mint [ well apart from a dent he has just put in it ] Engine on this was smokin a bit at nearly 200,000 miles but twas the rust that never slept got it in the end and caused retirement to off road use only . Think the US version was marketed as the Subaru Rabbit . Very apt . Subaru_pick_up.bmp
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    Toy Poodle
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    Its all true .Collie crosses are rubbish . Don't buy one . If you hear of such a litter(or even better a lurcher to collie cross) being bred this year however I'd love a PM as I'm looking for a bitch that will be totally useless to replace my old collie /lurcher cross who was also totally useless .
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    £20 is a lot for a youngster to pay when plenty of freds can be had for between nothing and a tenner ....But for an adult ,experienced ferreter and trusting that the little animals are from good stock and from a breeder who values his animals that extra tenner is hardly going to be a deciding factor. Especially when the cost is likely to be spread over a working life of six to ten years and the capture of hundreds of rabbits . I tend to give mine away or do swaps with people I know . I've have two strains on the go for years .One is very laid -back (bomb-proof I thi
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    Yeh as a replacement for chicken it looks the part but certainly as far as the the older specimens go perhaps it should be called" musty ,yellow leathery sponge of the woods" !. Caught young its not bad in stews and "chicken" curries .
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    interference with property is crime or at very least a Tort . hence RSPCA had no right to touch a legally set snare . A possible defence -quite reasonably -would have been that the fox was foul caught by a leg or suchlike . The Wild mammals protection Act does recognise that a possible degree of suffering may be unavoidably involved in legitimate pest control so providing the snare was legally set and checked and fox was fairly caught the RSPCA had no real legal cause to interfere . A better course would have been to check via the landowner who had set the snare and liased with them
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    as everyone says ,there is danger from rats ,mink , stoats etc and a muzzle will leave the poor fred unable to deliver a self-defending nip. Doe rabbits ,especially late in the season, can get very aggressive and will choose to fight a ferret rather than bolt . A muzzle might stop a ferret killing down the hole but it won't neccessarily stop it from having a go and scrabbling at a rabbit in a dead -end or scratching at a nest of babies in frustration . That's assuming that the poor thing can concentrate on it's work whilst wearing the device . . Also, as people are saying , ma
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    Badger?!!!!
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    I'm keeping quiet on the Jeyes fluid debate but there are things that can be applied very successfully . Like hell am I going to give details . As Matt says there are legal considerations for a start even before you get onto environmental concerns . Oh no , you won't hear it from me . Support your local mole-catcher ! Matt the Rat . I fear you could be right about the leg -pulling .Woke-up today and found that I am now well over 7 feet tall ! . You've heard of the foam being used for studying t
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    Yep , I asked about the quality of the pitches after treatment but he swore it was fine . I obviously sounded like disbelieving so n so because he did agree to find out more for me when the school holidays end . Another problem I would have thought ,would have been foam bubbling -up out of the ground where the mole hills had been ... Maybe the operator was doing something a bit dodgy and "spun " the foam story to make it sound more acceptable ?. Trouble is there is a grain of truth in it all as i know that such things have been done as part of studie
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    Nasty things . By law he cannot use it on runs that contain moles(or any other animal ) as it is illegal to blow any animal up in this country ! . So he should be clearing the moles out BEFORE he blows their homes up or he's lining himself up for a visit from the Law . In other words he might just have well invested a £100 or so on a score of decent mole traps and bunged you a few bob to run em out and check em for him & saved himself the bother of buying the dangerous monstrosity in the first place ..... On the other hand £1600 would get him a jolly good relationsh
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    Dear Dierdre Ok so I fell for it when someone told me that the word "gullable " had been deleted from the dictionary but I feel there could be some truth in this . Customer -school teacher at a "good " school - told me that they spent a lot of money stabilising their sports field after the mole tunnels had made it a health hazard . He described a machine that criss-crossed the whole field and was equiped with sensors attatched to foam-pumping probes that detected hollows and tunnels under the surface and automatically pumped them full of what sounds l
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    forget the Larson -not big enough . Go for Holdaway's big ladder or walk -in cage trap suggestion !
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    I'd try 2 to 4 ounces of food per bird in a proper feeding dish or hopper. If they eat the lot add some more tomorrow ,if they leave too much clear it up try a bit less .When they get the feel of scratching for worms and stuff things might change but then they will be using up energy foraging so their intake of shop-bought food might not actually drop. Good luck with em anyway , Ps Marans and LS .Good choice !
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    Just consulted my book on this one .Angling & The Law by S Payne . Seems that as long as you stay in a section of river where the tide "in the regular course of things flows and reflows" you have rights of navigation and free fishing . As long as you only catch sea species you won't need a licence . According to Justice Grove in a 1882 case it matters little if the water is salty or not but other cases have suggested that "where freshwater prevails " is the defining limit . Best to remember though that while you can probably navigate and fish several miles from the sea quite legal
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    Something meaty is good . Quixote gives good advice but I'd say that it is worth baiting fenns for rats if it is safe to do so .Remember, once you bait a trap you are in danger of attracting non-targets that might not otherwise be interested in an unbaited tunnel. One bait that has proved itself over and again for me -both for squirrels and rats is bird -feeder fat-balls. The rat in this picture was caught this afternoon and came to a Fenn tunnel barely an hour after it had been set on a shed shelf . I'd barely sat down at home for a cup of tea when the customer phoned to report
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    We had 23 from the one burrow but as you'll have gathered it was a big rambling one . A real South Downs chalk fortress & being the endof the season things were a bit sticky.Took us most of the day . To be honest I hate digging more than a foot or two but there really was'nt any option but to at least have a go. I've known the lad who owns the ferret since he was born as he is the son of one of my best mates . It's wierd ,I remember scraping round with his dad trying to get a few acres of ferreting permission and being over the moon if we managed to come home with a couple of rabbi
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    max abell you are the voice of reason . and what about the undergrowth snagging nets & making the holes difficult to find and access ? Once them does are paired -up and in kindle they get very territorial .Often rather run deeper into the burrow and make a fight of things than bolt .Believe me an adult rabbit ,given a bit of manouvring space, will not always back down to a ferret .I've seen a rabbit hop out of a burrow followed by the ferret . The bunny turned on the bumbling ferret ,boxed at it and gave it a kicking . . Then there are the nests of juicy kits ,the easily caught a
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